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It is probable, notwithstanding her somewhat exaggerated ideas of duty and wifely obedience, that she would have plucked up her courage and left him, even if she must earn her own living as a sempstress, had it not been for one circumstance. That circumstance was the arrival in the world of her daughter, Isobel.
The correctest thing was to be seen there at nights, rather late than early; and an exact knowledge of card games and billiards was worth more in it than prowess on the field. It was a club in the Pall Mall sense of the word. And Denry still lived in insignificant Brougham Street, and his mother was still a sempstress! These were apparently insurmountable truths.
Each of them threaded her needle with a short end of thread attached to the work, which was instantly pulled by an invisible force through the stuff, dragging the needle after it: the nimble fingers of the little sempstress caught it at the other side, but only to lose it again the next moment.
The happy are quick in detecting happiness in others, and Adrienne guessed, by the hunchback's last words, that there was no longer any secret between the smith and the sempstress. She could not therefore help exclaiming, as she entered: "Oh! this will be the brightest day of my life, for I shall not be happy alone!" Agricola and Mother Bunch turned round hastily.
No doubt, you have come from our mother the superior?" "Yes, yes, sister," answered the sempstress, casting down her eyes; "would you have the goodness to show me the way out?" "Come with me." The sewing-girl followed the nun, trembling at every step lest she should meet the superior, who would naturally have inquired the cause of her long stay in the convent.
"The fact is, Mr Duncalf and I don't hit it off together." Another procrastinator arrived in the porch, and, by a singular simultaneous impulse, Mrs Codleyn and Denry fell into the silence of the overheard and wandered forth together among the graves. There, among the graves, she eyed him. He was a clerk at eighteen shillings a week, and he looked it. His mother was a sempstress, and he looked it.
"Thank you, Agricola," replied the sempstress, looking down, "I have only just dined." "Oh, I only ask you for form's sake you have your whims we can never prevail on you to eat with us just like mother; she prefers dining all alone; and in that way she deprives herself without my knowing it." "Goodness, child! It is better for my health to dine early. Well, do you find it nice?"
Then, turning towards the sempstress, she added: "You are quite ignorant of the nature of these revelations?" "Completely so, mademoiselle; but I know Agricola. He is all honor and truth, and you may believe whatever he affirms. Besides, he would have no interest " "Good gracious!" interrupted Florine, suddenly, as if struck with a sadden light; "I have just remembered something.
Servants, 1s. 6d.; poor, 1s.; guide to the Stones, 2s.; poor woman in the street, 1s.; ribbands, 9d.; washwoman, 1s.; sempstress for W. Hewer, 3s.; lent W. Hewer, 3s.
She found Eve hard at work at her sewing-machine, in the midst of an accumulation of dress stuff, such as might well have appalled one unused to the business. But the busy rush of the machine, and the concentrated attitude of the sempstress, displayed neither confusion nor worry beyond the desire to complete that which she was at work on. Eve glanced up quickly as Annie came in.
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